What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

[YesNo]

Pitch Perfect
Score 8/10

Delightfully stupid, but nonetheless stupid. I enjoyed it.

[Lykren]

Django Unchained! Loved it. 9/10 if I must rate it.

[MorpheusSandman]

Nashville (1975; Robert Altman) - 8/10

Often described as Altman's "sprawling masterpiece," Nashville is a rather ingenious mix of political satire and country music with an orgy of characters and plotlines. The film is full of dead-ends and red herrings; every time you think it's finally going to settle down and focus on something, it turns its attention elsewhere, and with Altman's constantly overlapping dialogue, the overall impression is of a never-ending symphony of images and sounds. A fascinating film, undoubtedly, but, for my money, it doesn't better Altman's elegiac McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

Naked (1993; Mike Leigh) - 9/10

Imagine the intellectual, dialogue-driven films of Eric Rohmer combined with noir visuals, a driving cello score, and a cast of hapless, disillusioned, Manchester youths and you may have a rough idea of what this film is like. It's utterly proactive throughout its runtime with its mix of laugh-out-loud humor, intellectual substance, and relentless bleakness (even brutality). Like Rohmer, there's no reason that the film should be as engaging and stimulating as it is, yet even in distended, talky scenes, like Johnny with the security guard that has them discussing everything from Nostradamus to The Book of Revelation, evolution to the apocalypse, it's utterly riveting. It probably helps the cast is pitch-perfect, especially David Thewlis' messianic masochist, Johnny, and Katrin Cartlidge's dynamic Sophie.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz) - 8/10

Just as charming as I remember it, and may I say that blu-ray was made for these technicolor films.

[jajdude]

Straight Time -- 1978, Dustin Hoffman. Very good.

Charlie Bartlett -- 2007, dunno the kid's name, had Robert Downey Jr. Also good.

[MorpheusSandman]

Dredd (2012; Pete Travis) - 6/10

Well, it's better than the Stallone film, though that's not saying much since a polished turd would be better than that film. It still misses the humor and satirical edge of the comics, and mostly just turns the character into a violent superhero throughout the length of the film. It's clear the film was shot with 3D in mind, and like most films that have done such, it probably loses something in 2D. The super slow-mo effects were quite striking, though. Shame they have so little do with the character.

Il Bidone (1955; Federico Fellini) - 7.5/10

A really solid, early film of Fellini that's strangely underrated. It certainly lacks his later surrealistic visual imagination, instead trading it for a more traditional, neo-realism story about con men and their growing sense of morality and disillusionment with their profession. Broderick Crawford is wonderful in the lead role, and he really rings some real emotion out of his character, even if Fellini seems straining towards melodrama at certain points. The film is still strangely touching, with some wonderful sequences like the party, with its symphony of sounds, movement, characters, and mini-plotlines. It's strangely reminiscent of the party scene in Renoir's The Rules of the Game, but if it was combined with Fellini's sense of bursting-at-the-seams fun.

[cafolini]

Runaway Bride. Roberts and Gere in one of their best.

[qimissung]

A young English woman and her brother visit the Paris exhibition of 1896 and book into separate rooms
at a hotel within sight of the Eiffel tower. The following morning, the hotel staff deny all knowledge of the
brother, and the room that he occupied doesn't exist. Refusing to go back to England, the girl enlists
the help of an English artist who met with her brother immediately before his disappearance, and
between them they discover that the missing room has been concealed behind a false wall, The reason
for this and the strange behaviour of the hotel staff is revealed in an ending that I don't think anyone
could possibly have guessed. Dirk Bogarde and Jean Simmons give charming performances in this Victorian thriller
that captures the Parisian atmosphere as well as the sinister undertones of the mystery.

I do love a good mystery. Sounds good, Emil, I'll check it out. Jean Simmons is a pretty good actress, I think, isn't she? I don't really know much about Dirk Bogarde.

"A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III", directed by Roman Coppola, starring Charlie Sheen. This movie is a send-up of Charlie Sheen's life. At least that's what it appears to be. All I can say is that it is delightfully goof;, it revels in it, in fact. I think my favorite scene (after one near the beginning, anyway) is one where Sheen and his best friend, played by Jason Schwartzman, appear to be riding horses. You can just see the horses necks and rumps as it is a close up of the two men; and the necks and rumps of the horses are bobbing up and down, but on second look, the scenery is not moving by. I think this must be a tip of the hat to those old cowboy shows in the 50's and 60' like the lone ranger. At the end I just happened to see a credit for horse puppets. Let me just say they are not the only puppets in the movie. 7/10

[Emil Miller]

I do love a good mystery. Sounds good, Emil, I'll check it out. Jean Simmons is a pretty good actress, I think, isn't she? I don't really know much about Dirk Bogarde.

Bogarde was one of the most famous British actors, noted for his matinee idol looks, who made a host of films during the 1950's and '60s.
He was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, so I imagine he changed his name to Dirk for convenience. Jean Simmons was certainly his female match in the film but, unlike Dirk Bogarde, I never saw her in a bad film and So Long at the Fair is one of her best.
Anyhow, here's the theme music from the film: http://youtu.be/mUEzU8G-FCU


If you do decide to watch it, I would bet that you won't be able to guess the ending without looking it up beforehand.

[Snowqueen]

Wreck it Ralph - 6/10. I saw it with my nieces and they didn’t seem to enjoy it.

[Helga]

'Say anything' I sometimes just really want to watch a movie about teenagers from the 80' and maybe early 90' until Clueless ruined them. They show a totally different image of girls than movies do today

it's no Hughes but pretty good

[Desolation]

I had a Paul Thomas Anderson marathon this week, for some reason.

Boogie Nights - 8/10
Magnolia - 9/10
Punch-Drunk-Love - 8/10
The Master - 10/10 (Probably my favorite movie of 2012)

Brilliant, brilliant film-maker. Can't believe I'd only seen one of his movies (There Will Be Blood) up until a few days ago.

[YesNo]

Taken 2

Score 7/10

The action seemed pretty good and the bad guys lose. The only problem with the movie is the way the wife and daughter get hysterical and then for some odd reason cooperate.

The first Taken was OK as well. Again, the bad guys can't shoot straight and get what's coming to them.

[qimissung]

Somewhere directed by Sofia Coppola. 9/10 I loved it. Such a spare little movie, yet it says so much.

[Snowqueen]

War Horse by Steven Spielberg. 7/10

[Grit]

Perfect Pitch

7/10

I hate musicals, and glee and glee. This was musical done right. Funny and ridiculous, but with something serious and positive to say as well.

I watch a ton of movies, (work at a video store) and for horror fans I want to recommend Sinister. Best horror film in years, sadly.